There's a simple bias that seems to endure. Anyone may accidentally fall into its trap. Once they do, they make it impossible for others to avoid doing the same thing. It's called the Survivorship Bias, and it can be used to convince people of nearly anything. »11/07/13 8:00am 11/07/13 8:00am

When you go searching for one of the most dangerous psychic agents in the world, you'd better have a darn good plan for what happens when you find him. In day two of our exclusive daily comic strip of Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT, Lyme catches up with the deadly Fingerprint — with potentially murderous consequences. »11/27/12 7:00am 11/27/12 7:00am

There's only one thing worse than a ruthless organization of psychic spies — and that's psychic spies who have been cut loose after their organization went under. We've raved about the Dark Horse Comics series Mind MGMT before, but now we're excited to bring you a glimpse of a brand new status quo for Matt Kindt's… »11/26/12 7:00am 11/26/12 7:00am

Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics, here's an exclusive sneak peek at this November's issue of author/illustrator Matt Kindt's psychic warfare series Mind MGMT. Here's the rundown on Mind MGMT #0 and a brief conversation io9 had with Kindt about his plans for this byzantine comic. »8/08/12 1:10pm 8/08/12 1:10pm

So you want to be a psychic. You want to make tons of money, preying on desperate, gullible people. Let's assume you don't actually have psychic powers — or else, you already know that you don't need to read this article. For the rest of us, pretending to have clairvoyant abilities is a whole complicated art form. »7/05/12 9:00am 7/05/12 9:00am

To gear up for the May 23 release of Matt Kindt's (Revolver, The Tooth) new telepaths-and-spies series Mind MGMT, Dark Horse Comics is releasing a series of free online prequels stories titled Mind MGMT: Secret Files. These chapters will run on Dark Horse's digital site over the next three Wednesdays. Here's a sneak… »5/01/12 12:35pm 5/01/12 12:35pm

Today's mediums and psychic detectives are nothing new – people have been claiming the ability to see the future, speak with the dead or read minds since antiquity. Scientific experiments testing for evidence of paranormal abilities are a relatively modern phenomenon, however. Has science ever produced verifiable… »3/07/12 9:06am 3/07/12 9:06am

When you read a certain kind of news, the words smash you point blank in the face like a projectile fired from a flaming trebuchet. And when you regain consciousness and examine said projectile, you realize it is actually a matryoshka doll...filled with live grenades. »7/27/11 1:50pm 7/27/11 1:50pm

Nancy Marks, a psychic from Lafayette, Colorado, was arrested for fraud after telling clients their "money [was] evil" and that she'd take their cursed cash so "the money would suffer" instead. Marks made at least $290,000 using this scam. »5/18/10 3:36pm 5/18/10 3:36pm